120 Most Read Posts of 2009
Given it’s holiday season for many of you, and, with the recession and all, many of you in the southern hemisphere will be, hopefully, spending time in the garden preparing for uncertain times. But, there’ll be rainy days where you may well be pressing your nose up against the glass, wishing you could go outside and play but not being allowed to, and of course the rest of us in the northern hemisphere may have a few months to go before the ice melts….
As such, to give you something worthwhile to do, I thought I’d put up the most read posts from this site from 2009. Our internal stats give us a breakdown of clicks, and so the posts below are listed in the order of popularity of visit. You voted for them with your mice.
But Please Note: Do remember, many of the posts have an unfair disadvantage, simply from the fact that they were published later in the year. Indeed, some of them were published prior to 2009 but have consistently attracted visits. As such, I’d suggest browsing titles you haven’t seen before and reading those with subjects that interest you.
P.S.: Please also note, we have a ‘Categories’ section on our sidebar, where you can drill down to sub-categories that interest you at any time.
P.P.S.: Why not, on other rainy days, take some time to tell the world about what you’re doing, or what inspires you? I believe we need to share our experiences so we can all grow together in knowledge and purpose. Click here to read more.
- An Industrial Revolution Like No Other
- The Permaculture Master Plan
- Global Warming, Hitler, and World War II Rationing
- Rosina Buckman – Living Smart on the Sunshine Coast
- Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food
- Demystifying Economics
- Letters from Vietnam – the Road to Na Sai
- Veggie Garden on White House Lawn
- Convert Your Eco-Unfriendly Swimming Pool into a Biologically Active and Attractive Fish Farm!
- Use of permaculture under salinity and drought conditions
- Tamarind Tree
- Letters from Vietnam: The Hmong People – Reclaiming Lost Skills
- Phosphorus Matters
- Greening the Desert II – Final
- Urban Design Patterns in Melbourne
- Nitrogen Fixing Trees – The Multipurpose Pioneers
- Pesticides, and You
- “Living on the edge”, the balcony garden designers guild
- Going to Pot!
- Letters from Vietnam – Arriving to HEPA
- Letters from Sri Lanka – The World’s Largest Water Harvesting Earthworks Project
- Obama’s Organic Example Sets Cat Amongst Corporate Pigeons
- Which Came First – Pests, or Pesticides?
- Soil – Our Financial Institution
- Fast compost – Soil Permaculture Design and Maintenance
- Bill Mollison Interview from 1991
- Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security
- Report on our Iranian Consultancy Trip of December 2008
- This is What Denial Does
- A Refrigerator that Runs Without Electricity
- Genetically Modified Foods Unsafe? Evidence that Links GM Foods to Allergic Responses Mounts
- The Other Bail-Out
- Hooray for the Water Buffalo!
- Vetiver Grass – A Hedge Against Erosion
- Food Miles, or ‘Fair Miles’
- Permaculture (and why it is my new way…)
- Phosphorus Matters II – Keeping Phosphorus on Farms
- How to Turn Astringent Persimmons into Enchanting Natural Confections, Japanese Style
- Wonder Weeds
- Monsanto Runs Into Wall. Yes!!
- Food Forests Across America
- Transforming Your Urban Backyard
- Humanure Handbook – Free Download
- Letters from Melbourne – Cam and Jesse’s Urban Retreat
- In the Transition to Self-sufficiency, Suburban Food Gardens Have a Role to Play
- The Roots of Change – in Ourselves, or Government and Industry?
- Orchestrating Famine – a Must-Read Backgrounder on the Food Crisis
- Joel Salatin and the Expression of Chickenness
- Building a Sustainable Economy
- Beyond Peak Oil and Climate Change
- When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide
- Efficient Glasshouse Design
- An Ocean of Unknown
- Jean Pain Composting – All the Energy You Need, From the Garden
- Money as Debt
- Compost miracles
- Pandemic Ahoy?
- Permaculture Miracles in the Austrian Mountains
- Taking a Quick Peek at Djanbung Gardens
- Permaculture Samoa
- Chia: Crop Potential and Uses
- A Better Way to Make Money
- The Food Crisis Spurs Gene Patenting Race
- Permablitz Hysteria – Bring it On!
- Rich Nations Buying Up Land in Poor Countries at Escalating Rate
- Staring at the Future from the Top of the Slippery Slide
- Life at Zaytuna – Getting Rid of Wi-Fi
- Tackling Urban Water Runoff in a Sydney Suburb
- The Rocket Powered Shower
- World Geothermal Power Generation Nearing Eruption
- The Knights Carbonic
- Street Orchards for Community Security
- Keyline Design – Mark IV
- The Global Spread of GMO Crops
- Life at Zaytuna – Trees, Trees, and More Trees
- The Mathematics that Contemporary Economics Ignores
- Letters from Vietnam – Ke Village
- Europe’s Uprising Against GMOs and Patents on Life
- French Drains for Urban Storm-water Infiltration
- Each Step is the Way – Part I
- Carbon Trading – and What Should Be on the Negotiating Table at Copenhagen
- Permaculture Main Crops of Special Importance – Salad Mallow
- The Crash Course
- Open Letter to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: “GM crops will not feed the world”
- The One Duck Revolution
- Rosella Waters – Earthworks Phase 1, Part A
- Build a Banana Circle
- The World According to Monsanto
- Letters from Sri Lanka – The Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, and the Ten Basic Needs
- BK Farmyards – a Subversive Urban Farming Concept
- World Energy Outlook 2009 Report Released, as Senior IEA Employees Blow Whistle
- Keyline Swales – a Geoff Lawton/Darren Doherty Hybrid
- Vuon – Ao – Chuong – The Traditional Vietnamese Farm
- Drumstick Tree
- Community-Based Rainforest Restoration Work is Huge Success in Borneo
- The Video Shell Doesn’t Want You to See
- Cold, High and Dry: Traditional Agriculture in Ladakh
- Pay Monsanto, or Starve
- 18-Day Compost – the Appliance of Science
- A Civilisational Tipping Point
- Jerusalem Artichokes – like Diamonds, are Forever
- Letters from Sri Lanka – Does Sarvodaya Hold the Secrets to Systemic Change?
- The Oil Intensity of Food
- Why ‘Increased Energy Efficiency’ Won’t Save Us
- Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon
- Life at Zaytuna – Rainy Days
- Michael Jackson – Earth Song
- BR-319 – Amazon’s Highway to Hell
- Scrap It
- Phases of Abundance
- Food Futures Now – Feeding People & Place Without Fossil Fuels
- A Farm for the Future
- Veiling Our True Predicament – Global Dimming
- Outdoor Classrooms, A Handbook for School Gardens
- Porkine Putridity in Profusion
- The Gospel of Consumption
- The Gold Coast’s First Permablitz!
- The Peasants Are Revolting
- Norway’s Eco-Prison
- A Better Way of Making a Living
Can you put click counts against some of these? What’s your daily average unique visitor count to the site?